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Originally Posted by BlackCatXIII
Ok lets see.. How much better are mirc, x-chat, Irssi then the 100% free IceChat ( http://www.icechat.net/site/ ) (latest version 7 added 06-Feb-2005 ) |
I'm sure there are many good capable IRC clients out there. The problem comes around to the community support. Most people who hang around the fansub channels use one of those major 3 clients. Some may use opera chat or chatzilla just because those were available, but even those are rare.
mIRC remains to be one of the most popular client around just because of the sheer number of readily available scripts. And its scripting language is dead easy to learn. Major scripts like sysreset and UPP makes the users' lives much easier on IRC. And if they ever have any question, they can just turn around and ask any buddies in the channel, and someone is likely to know the answer. You can't expect the same thing for icechat.
I think x-chat and irssi are popular among people who are at least familiar with unix/linux environment. People who like GUI will use x-chat, and people who likes to type everything to get things done will use irssi. Or some people will buy a shell account somewhere, and run irssi in screen session, so their IRC session will never be dropped, even when they're rebooting their own PC.